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The Under-Representation Of Women As First Authors

The Horizons Tracker

The courses covered social science; humanities; science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and other. The representation of female authors on syllabi was lower than representation of females as authors in the peer-reviewed literature or in the workforce.

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The Countries with the Boldest Business Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Our leadership development work with organizations has given us a database of 360-degree assessments from over 75,000 business leaders around the world. This accords with other, peer-reviewed research that shows a connection between displaying confidence and being perceived as competent. (If

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Since taking the job four years ago, he has sought ways of giving greater responsibility to his 80-person division of software engineers. Lead by example.

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. Continuous integration and automated testing is important for all modern, large scale software development. Google’s test machine is built and run by a “test engineering” group, whose size is about 15% of their total developers.

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Who's the Best at Innovating Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

An exciting and powerful model for cultivating, evaluating, funding, and growing new ideas — and a detailed recipe for unleashing the power of peer review in any organization. by Ashley Good, Engineers Without Borders Canada. The state of the art when it comes to developing innovation as a core competence.